Nicholas Bate

Saturday.

Re-discover Planet Earth.

Staggering to those with eyes wide open. 

UK based? Fed up with politics?

Guaranteed 100% politics free, two fab novels…

 

Meet Molly. Love. Thrills. Fable. Good story. 

Meet Molly, the sequel. ‘Even better’

 

With added politics-coming in a couple of months-

Bram, A Spy Story. This winter.

Thursday Freedom, 7

Stay free by (1) keeping it simple: if you add to your life, drop something else (2) staying wise: read, reflect, discuss, debate (3) seeking abundant energy: walk, stretch, use the body (4) having no money concerns: chase quality of life not standard of living (5) dropping any baggage: focus on futures and possibilities not past and what might have been (6) taking action: one step, any step in the direction you seek (7) re-realising freedom is a state of mind.

Always more support in Being the Best version of you.

The Most Powerful Productivity Tips, 17

Developing your courage and ability to say no.

Always more in You, Only Better and Meet Molly.

The Maths of Personal Change, 7

1. Addition. Slowly, surely. Adding. Ideas, knowledge, development. Haha: inch by inch is a cinch.
2. Subtraction. Take it away. Let it go. Baggage, history and clutter. Feel free again.
3. Multiplication. How about if you started walking a lot? And meditating? The cumulative power is greater than the component parts.
4. Division. Divide, divide, divide. And hence conquer. Make it so small you can tackle it.
5. Brackets. Put some stuff aside. Deal with it later. Drop it down the priority list. You can do anything but you can't do everything.
6. Graph it. For visual impact. See it. Believe it. See your goals happening: success breeds success.
7. Algebra. Be willing to face the unknowns. They'll take ages to identify; but once done you'll feel good.

Always Helpful, 150

Remembering they don’t like Mondays either. 

Fifty Ways to Boost Your Productivity

1. Don’t hold stuff in your head.
2. Keep your head clear and use your head for thinking: decisive, critical, imaginative.
3. Use paper/screen for ‘holding’ your list of what needs attention.
4. Our greatest asset is where we place our attention.  Bear in mind we live in an exciting world where our attention is constantly ‘pulled’ to another place. 
5. To be productive is to maintain attention on what is important in the face of continuous distraction.
6. And what needs attention is not just urgent, but what is important and thus often apparently not urgent e.g. health.
7. Thus: ask what is important?
8. Firstly by referencing the compass points of your life….
9. Thus: your business/career
10. Thus: your health
11. Thus: your relationships
12. Thus: your finances
13. Capture these on you attention list.
14. Secondly by stretching your planning horizon…
15. Every day, ask what’s important tomorrow?
16. Every week, ask what’s important next week?
17. Every month, ask what’s important next month?
18. Every quarter, ask what’s important next quarter?
19. Every year, ask what’s important next year?
20. Capture these to on your attention list.
21. And finally anything which is burning and urgent; add these to your list.
22. But the more you do 8 and 14 above…
23. The fewer will be generated by  21.
24. Every end-of-the-working-day review your list and decide what does need attention: create your daily list.
25. Don’t try and do everything.
26. Do the high payoff stuff as measured against your personal goals and work objectives.
27. Still too much to do?
28. A system is weak.
29. E.g. 1 too much time chasing customer problems because it wasn’t done properly first time.
30. E.g. 2 too much splitting of work by multi-tasking: batch your work i.e. group similar activities.
31. E.g. 3 working late so concentration is  poor the next day.
32. Or
33. Ensure you are working ON yourself and investing to make things easier e.g. add these tips into the mix…
34. add one, drop one: if you add to your work-load, get rid of something.
35. the forward view: look ahead and anticipate problems and sort them while they are small.
36. deep time out: ensure you get proper rest and real time without the electrons.
37. open list vs. closed list: understand the difference between your attention list which is open (never completed and for reference) and your daily list which is closed (completed each day).
38. eliminate distractions: your greatest asset is attention.
39. look after your wellness so you remain creative. With creativity comes productivity breakthroughs.
40. break, break and date. Break large tasks into small ones and date-stamp them as to when they need to be done.
41. schedule ahead. Put into the diary any fixed event so that it can be seen in the landscape of planning
42. automate. Learn how to use filters on your e-mail. Automate anything you can.
43. zone. Personal time. Family time. Work can now leak into any time. Create clear zones.
44. use technology not the other way around. You use e-mail to help you not e-mail destroys your life.
45. But never forget: why are you trying to be productive? To get things done? No: anybody can do that. To get the right things done.
46. That’s efficient, getting things done vs. effective. getting the RIGHT things done.
47. If you become too efficient,  you’ll lose the plot.
48. Stay effective.
49. True productivity is simple.
50. It’s not a list of 'things to do', it’s life lived long, wide and deep.

Always more in You, Only Better and Meet Molly.

 

1. Don’t hold stuff in your head.
2. Keep your head clear and use your head for thinking: decisive, critical, imaginative.
3. Use paper/screen for ‘holding’ your list of what needs attention.
4. Our greatest asset is where we place our attention.  Bear in mind we live in an exciting world where our attention is constantly ‘pulled’ to another place. 
5. To be productive is to maintain attention on what is important in the face of continuous distraction.
6. And what needs attention is not just urgent, but what is important and thus often apparently not urgent e.g. health.
7. Thus: ask what is important?
8. Firstly by referencing the compass points of your life….
9. Thus: your business/career
10. Thus: your health
11. Thus: your relationships
12. Thus: your finances
13. Capture these on you attention list.
14. Secondly by stretching your planning horizon…
15. Every day, ask what’s important tomorrow?
16. Every week, ask what’s important next week?
17. Every month, ask what’s important next month?
18. Every quarter, ask what’s important next quarter?
19. Every year, ask what’s important next year?
20. Capture these to on your attention list.
21. And finally anything which is burning and urgent; add these to your list.
22. But the more you do 8 and 14 above…
23. The fewer will be generated by  21.
24. Every end-of-the-working-day review your list and decide what does need attention: create your daily list.
25. Don’t try and do everything.
26. Do the high payoff stuff as measured against your personal goals and work objectives.
27. Still too much to do?
28. A system is weak.
29. E.g. 1 too much time chasing customer problems because it wasn’t done properly first time.
30. E.g. 2 too much splitting of work by multi-tasking: batch your work i.e. group similar activities.
31. E.g. 3 working late so concentration is  poor the next day.
32. Or
33. Ensure you are working ON yourself and investing to make things easier e.g. add these tips into the mix…
34. add one, drop one: if you add to your work-load, get rid of something.
35. the forward view: look ahead and anticipate problems and sort them while they are small.
36. deep time out: ensure you get proper rest and real time without the electrons.
37. open list vs. closed list: understand the difference between your attention list which is open (never completed and for reference) and your daily list which is closed (completed each day).
38. eliminate distractions: your greatest asset is attention.
39. look after your wellness so you remain creative. With creativity comes productivity breakthroughs.
40. break, break and date. Break large tasks into small ones and date-stamp them as to when they need to be done.
41. schedule ahead. Put into the diary any fixed event so that it can be seen in the landscape of planning
42. automate. Learn how to use filters on your e-mail. Automate anything you can.
43. zone. Personal time. Family time. Work can now leak into any time. Create clear zones.
44. use technology not the other way around. You use e-mail to help you not e-mail destroys your life.
45. But never forget: why are you trying to be productive? To get things done? No: anybody can do that. To get the right things done.
46. That’s efficient, getting things done vs. effective. getting the RIGHT things done.
47. If you become too efficient,  you’ll lose the plot.
48. Stay effective.
49. True productivity is simple.
50. It’s not a list of 'things to do', it’s life lived long, wide and deep.

Always more in You, Only Better and Meet Molly.

 

1. Don’t hold stuff in your head.
2. Keep your head clear and use your head for thinking: decisive, critical, imaginative.
3. Use paper/screen for ‘holding’ your list of what needs attention.
4. Our greatest asset is where we place our attention.  Bear in mind we live in an exciting world where our attention is constantly ‘pulled’ to another place. 
5. To be productive is to maintain attention on what is important in the face of continuous distraction.
6. And what needs attention is not just urgent, but what is important and thus often apparently not urgent e.g. health.
7. Thus: ask what is important?
8. Firstly by referencing the compass points of your life….
9. Thus: your business/career
10. Thus: your health
11. Thus: your relationships
12. Thus: your finances
13. Capture these on you attention list.
14. Secondly by stretching your planning horizon…
15. Every day, ask what’s important tomorrow?
16. Every week, ask what’s important next week?
17. Every month, ask what’s important next month?
18. Every quarter, ask what’s important next quarter?
19. Every year, ask what’s important next year?
20. Capture these to on your attention list.
21. And finally anything which is burning and urgent; add these to your list.
22. But the more you do 8 and 14 above…
23. The fewer will be generated by  21.
24. Every end-of-the-working-day review your list and decide what does need attention: create your daily list.
25. Don’t try and do everything.
26. Do the high payoff stuff as measured against your personal goals and work objectives.
27. Still too much to do?
28. A system is weak.
29. E.g. 1 too much time chasing customer problems because it wasn’t done properly first time.
30. E.g. 2 too much splitting of work by multi-tasking: batch your work i.e. group similar activities.
31. E.g. 3 working late so concentration is  poor the next day.
32. Or
33. Ensure you are working ON yourself and investing to make things easier e.g. add these tips into the mix…
34. add one, drop one: if you add to your work-load, get rid of something.
35. the forward view: look ahead and anticipate problems and sort them while they are small.
36. deep time out: ensure you get proper rest and real time without the electrons.
37. open list vs. closed list: understand the difference between your attention list which is open (never completed and for reference) and your daily list which is closed (completed each day).
38. eliminate distractions: your greatest asset is attention.
39. look after your wellness so you remain creative. With creativity comes productivity breakthroughs.
40. break, break and date. Break large tasks into small ones and date-stamp them as to when they need to be done.
41. schedule ahead. Put into the diary any fixed event so that it can be seen in the landscape of planning
42. automate. Learn how to use filters on your e-mail. Automate anything you can.
43. zone. Personal time. Family time. Work can now leak into any time. Create clear zones.
44. use technology not the other way around. You use e-mail to help you not e-mail destroys your life.
45. But never forget: why are you trying to be productive? To get things done? No: anybody can do that. To get the right things done.
46. That’s efficient, getting things done vs. effective. getting the RIGHT things done.
47. If you become too efficient,  you’ll lose the plot.
48. Stay effective.
49. True productivity is simple.
50. It’s not a list of 'things to do', it’s life lived long, wide and deep.

Always more in You, Only Better and Meet Molly.

 

Sunday Bonding Tips

With Kurt. 

It's fine to advocate a position in theory

but the question is what is done in practice. 

Need a Saturday Solution, 7

1. Phone/text a friend you trust.
2. Take a walk, alone.
3. Ask: if I had to make a decision and it were simpler than I think, what would I do?
4. Dip into a random book, at random.
5. Write it out at speed, then leave it 24h.
6. Think of a hero/heroine of yours and ask: how would they tackle it?
7. Google/Bing it, shuffling a few times the chosen search phrase.